[Secret crush + contrast + secret identity + pursuing his husband + pure love + reunion after a long separation]
[A husband-chasing crematorium: they “meet” in the early story, the shou pursues the gong in the middle, and the gong chases his husband in the latter half]
[Gloomy, cunning, sweet on the outside but dark within gong X sunny, cheerful ray-of-sunshine shou]
At nineteen, Jing Zhaoyan was like a white tea blossom growing in a ditch. Beautiful, but gloomy and withdrawn, he was an outcast no one dared approach.
Lu Yun’en was his opposite in every way: a celebrated figure on campus, sunny and loyal, but quick-tempered, with a crowd of friends always around him.
Everyone at Jiang University knew that Young Master Lu couldn’t stand seeing the weak bullied, and Jing Zhaoyan happened to hit his “pity button” perfectly.
That breathtaking face, paired with his gloomy, taciturn nature, made him seem especially fragile.
The first time Lu Yun’en helped Jing Zhaoyan, he found him crouched helplessly on the ground while a group of thugs bullied him.
Later, he helped him out of plenty of other scrapes.
Gradually, he got used to this junior who always seemed to “coincidentally” appear in his line of sight.
He thought the other boy was a helpless weakling in need of protection, never realizing that every “chance encounter” had been carefully arranged.
But just as he thought he’d picked up a poor little thing, Jing Zhaoyan suddenly tore off his mask and cornered him in the shadows of the stairwell, his eyes filled with long-hidden, possessive obsession:
“En’en-gege, can you protect only me?”
King En’en was so shocked his pupils nearly burst: Wait, how is this nothing like the helpless little waif I imagined?!
He stared at the man before him, who had shed his timidity and now looked at him with obsessive possessiveness. In his heart, he thought: Oh no, did I raise a “big bad wolf” as if he were a “poor little thing”?!
